Sindh under attack of AIDS.

Byline: NASIR SOOMRO - Karachi

Larkana has turned into an AIDS cesspool, with the number of patients in Sindh increasing day by day, The rise in patients have taken a terrible human toll, laying claim to millions of lives, inflicting pain and grief, causing fright and uncertainty and threatening economic devastation. According to reports, some 23,000 HIV cases have been registered across the country, with the frightening figure of 571 HIV patients surged in Ratodero, Taulka of Larkana.

HIV infection is growing in this ill-fated district of Sindh. People of Pakistan are already grinding in extreme poverty and the burden of this deadly disease has further left them bereft of a healthy life. The reasons for the high figures...